Results 601-620 of 1,597 for speaker:Cecilia Keaveney

Seanad: Intoxicating Liquor Bill 2008: Second Stage (9 Jul 2008)

Cecilia Keaveney: Not together.

Seanad: Intoxicating Liquor Bill 2008: Second Stage (9 Jul 2008)

Cecilia Keaveney: If it is Rearden's, I will see the Senator there.

Seanad: Intoxicating Liquor Bill 2008: Second Stage (9 Jul 2008)

Cecilia Keaveney: I come from a rural background. I served as chairperson of a committee that compiled a number of reports on the issue of alcohol. In such circumstances, there is no need for me to outline the reasons the Bill is so important. Many discussions have taken place on the Order of Business and at other times about the difficulties in this country with our alcohol-related culture. As is usually...

Seanad: Intoxicating Liquor Bill 2008: Second Stage (9 Jul 2008)

Cecilia Keaveney: I hope the Minister will be back. The only issue I wish to raise with him is how we deal with under 18 year olds beyond being able to take alcohol from them.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Jul 2008)

Cecilia Keaveney: Unlike the rest of us.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Jul 2008)

Cecilia Keaveney: And of certain professions wanting to work from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. from Monday to Friday.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Jul 2008)

Cecilia Keaveney: It is a lack of vocationalism.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Jul 2008)

Cecilia Keaveney: The Bill is based on the commission's recommendations.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Jul 2008)

Cecilia Keaveney: Hear, hear. Let Members do so.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Jul 2008)

Cecilia Keaveney: Is the Senator trying to delay its passage on behalf of the vintners?

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Jul 2008)

Cecilia Keaveney: Were that to happen, it would scare the life out of the Senator.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Jul 2008)

Cecilia Keaveney: The arts were always excised from the priorities.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Jul 2008)

Cecilia Keaveney: It is based on the recommendations of the advisory group.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Jul 2008)

Cecilia Keaveney: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Jul 2008)

Cecilia Keaveney: I wish to raise two issues one of which relates to the food surplus, as raised by Senator Quinn. I acknowledge the EU initiative regarding the distribution of fruit to all primary schools and the value of this initiative in the context of the continuing growth of obesity levels in young children. While it is too late at this stage to ask for a debate on this matter perhaps the Deputy...

Seanad: Special Educational Needs (2 Jul 2008)

Cecilia Keaveney: I acknowledge the presence of one of my favourite Ministers, Deputy Haughey. He is becoming well versed on this important issue. I refer to the need for the Minister for Health and Children to decide a way forward for the introduction of arts therapies into special schools, given the proven benefits in Scoil Íosagáin, Buncrana, of the one year of music therapy for special needs students,...

Seanad: Special Educational Needs (2 Jul 2008)

Cecilia Keaveney: Is it not unusual that a day after €50 million was announced for special education for pre-school and post-school autistic students that €50,000 could not be found for children at school with autism and special needs?

Seanad: Special Educational Needs (2 Jul 2008)

Cecilia Keaveney: That is the crux of my problem. It is recognised by many but not recognised by the people who need to recognise it. I appreciate the Minister of State saying that he would organise the meeting. If people saw rather than assumed what it was about they would have a different opinion on it.

Seanad: Cancer Services: Motion (2 Jul 2008)

Cecilia Keaveney: The Minister has a very difficult job and has had to make very difficult decisions. This issue was unclear for many people until they met the man who cannot be named, Mr. Keane, and listened to him. It is one thing for a politician to say something, it is another for a clinician to say it. Almost ten years ago I was asked by Europa Donna to go to London for a meeting with clinicians. The...

Seanad: Cancer Services: Motion (2 Jul 2008)

Cecilia Keaveney: I welcome the fact that a surgeon is ready to take up his post in Letterkenny at the beginning of August. The idea that there are no facilities north of a line from Galway to Dublin was true a decade ago but if we are true republicans and believe in a 32 county Ireland, we must develop the links with Derry and Belfast. We must ensure we have equality of access to the services there because...